Example sentences of "and was [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 2 | The caption on p.34 bottom left states that the Merriam knapsack was standard issue ; in fact , of course , the Merriam was an unpopular novelty issued to certain units on a trial basis ( e.g. the 71st NY Volunteer Infantry ) and was not used at the front in any great numbers . |
| 3 | She did not regularly use tampons and was not menstruating at the time of admission . |
| 4 | The Cecchini Report did highlight potential benefits from co-ordinated expansion of aggregate demand , but this was rather vague and was not envisaged at the kind of level being advocated by the supporters of such Keynesian policies . |
| 5 | The ‘ Hannah Hauxwell ’ rose is a shell-pink patio and was officially launched at the Gateshead Show in the summer of 1990 . |
| 6 | Amongst his roles , Seth was god of wind and storms and was also placed at the prow of the sun 's boat to avert danger . |
| 7 | In the fist half of his speech , the right hon. Gentleman complained that the Bill was irrelevant , that it did nothing , that it was wholly superfluous and was simply aimed at the headlines . |
| 8 | A form of economic decentralisation , already approved by the Baltic legislatures , was given a cautious welcome by the USSR Supreme Soviet in July 1989 and was formally adopted at the winter parliamentary session . |
| 9 | The assiduous Cyril Cooper has stepped down as General Secretary to become vice-chairman and was recently honoured at a special lunch at Lord 's . |
| 10 | deane still looks out of sorts though , but Wallace is back to his old ways and was continually running at the defenders . |
| 11 | And after running out of ideas against Watson he then appeared to run out of strength and motivation and was actually looking at the canvas instead of into his opponents ' eyes in the seventh round when he was flattened by a thumping left jab . |
| 12 | The scope was extended in an ‘ enhanced ’ Urban Programme , which included economic and environmental as well as social projects , and was specifically directed at the inner urban areas where the problems were most severe . |
| 13 | By now I had forgotten Vauban and was surreptitiously staring at the two seated figures . |
| 14 | The chair had spun out of the central track along the ridge and was now skewed at the precipitous edge of what would be a steep and stony career . |
| 15 | Hanging over the increasingly tense political situation throughout May was the fate of more than 100 prisoners taking part in a mass hunger strike which began on May 1 and was still continuing at the end of the month . |
| 16 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 17 | It was , for its time , quite a capable machine , being blessed with 64k of Random Access Memory ( RAM ) and was initially aimed at the home user . |